Stan Wills was resting in his home around 3 p.m. when a firefighter began banging on his front door and ringing his doorbell to alarm him of the fire.

“I was inside my house laying down when a firefighter rang my door bell,” he said. “I looked out the window and couldn’t believe it. My barn was on fire.”

Wills said he and the firefighter used his own hose to spray down the nearby propane tank, about 15 feet from the pole barn, until assistance from Lakeview District and Maple Valley Township fire departments arrived.

Cory is the current Belding beat reporter for The Daily News, as well as the multimedia reporter, producing video and photo content for the paper's website. Cory is a hometown kid, having graduated from Greenville High School in 2004. He then went on to study Journalism at Michigan State University where he also played trumpet and marched as a member of the Spartan Marching Band for four years.